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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  avoiding talking about it on the blogs all summer long, in perhaps a stalwart refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... ’s vaguely about linguistics, even though my actual job is designing a website

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  nice. Unfortunately, these are not recent photos. No snow lies on this ... two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  much logistics. If you can put the thing on a website, [annotation note="Assuming you're not putting anything weird on your website. If you read my 2021 ... Sciences.']my CMS hat[/annotation] on and think about the Mystery Hunt from a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... on giving students the computer science skills she felt went overlooked ... meet with our team to talk about the app we're working on. Every day in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity. On the other hand, Nikayah had not heard about D9 organizations ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... . She knew there was an AKA on campus, so she reached out to her asking

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  't apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are required to live on ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... on-and-off campus. That leaves about 3 percent of people who just live

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... from your freshman year, and the first class on your hall that you ... never forget the music I listened to on my UROP trip to Washington, DC. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations ... three most popular places that people have cried on campus were: MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them ... conversation. Anecdote 2: I left my purse on a city bus a few months ago. When I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  , in Bayside and Little Neck (Slims, on Horace Harding near Springfield ... Cardozo, is sadly no longer on the awning.) Educational Counselors (ECs ... Stuyvesant. It was great having them join me on the visit to Stuyvesant. We had

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... turf war over my pillow. Yeah, my PILLOW. That I SLEEP ON. NOT COOL ... student groups on campus, WMBR has one of the largest direct community and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  I could ever fail a test, accidentally set myself on fire while trying ... that the school can see why someone like you would be great to have on ... out what skills you need, and work on building them, however hard that

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... exam, on "arithmetic, algebra, geometry, English grammar, geography, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up ... was later lowered and set on fire (I think) on the grass between the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday ... on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... 't have my camera on me, but I've pulled some pictures from The Tech of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021